Well, I would love to talk about the recent activities that I had during my stay in 17th College as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine student (DVM 1).
Quite shocking huh? All this while not any post then suddenly I became a vet student already! Life does take a turn around us you know~
Okay, back to the story, I had Vet Orientation and Career Week during the last weekends + Friday afternoon from 30 Sept to 2 Oct. It was organised by the faculty's club, VETERNAK UPM.
Day 1~3
Our faculty dean gave an introductory speech followed with introduction to our lecturers and staff who had working in the faculty departments without us much noticing and knowing about them, well now we do!
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| Our Dean and yes comfy to the chairs of auditorium hehe |
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| Lecturers we are gonna be accustomed to in 5 years~ |
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| Small animal surgeries doctors |
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| Dr Yasmin, specialised in virology |
All of the lecturers have great educational backgrounds, so their profession is not something to mess with, they mean business when they do their job;most of them had their PhDs in Scotland, New Zealand, Japan, Australia and even America. Isn't it amazing~~ I hope I will be somebody like that too one day XD
So the main highlights of the day is of course the invited speakers, Dr. Ardhy bin Adnan from Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) and Dr. Calvin Cheah who is currently working in Royal Canin.
The speech given by Dr. Ardhy mainly focused about the objectives and services offered by DVS to the clients. He presented to us the organisational structure of DVS. The top handling management is Director General of Veterinary Services while under him is two Deputy Director General which are for veterinary health and another for development. The sub-units are handled by three of them. With Dr. Ardhy's explanation, we were given a clarity on what kind of services were available on livestock industry technical services. Some of them are ambulatory, veterinary inspection, research, public health, disease control, quarantine import, diagnostic services , enforcement, training, and extension.
He explained that the three key roles of a vet in the civil services were as a : veterinary practitioner, veterinary strategist and veterinary manager. These three roles overlapped with each other explains how diverse a role of vet is in the civil service, It is not a work that is chair and table-bound job in office, it requires field work too unlike what most of us had been imagining of what the vets do in DVS.
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| A break on selfies with friends first... we are still awake and in high spirit for the next speaker!! |
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Afterwards, the speaker invited by our organizer was Dr. Calvin Cheah. He shared his life experiences in choosing careers after getting his degree in UPM. First, he started off as a small animal practitioner for 10 months. To him, working in a clinic is a boring job, so he decided to quit and do a new venture in business with his friends. It didn't last that long and then he started as a marketing manager in Royal Canin as a vet to care for the nutrition in pet food. Not long after that he was promoted to Corporate Affairs & Scientific Communication Manager which is his current position right now.
"The message he wanted to convey to us was that not everyone gets what he or she wants, but he or she is given the chance for a reason, and that interest in a course you are not familiar with can be developed through new experiences and not everyone who came out as a graduated vet student need to be JUST an animal doctor, we can also find careers that fit to our personality and lifestyle."
<< Q & A Session with Dr. Ardhy and Dr. Calvin Cheah
On the second day, we had a talk by Dr. Kavitha Jayaseelan specializing in wildlife as she works in Zoo Negara. She was an aspiring vet working in the zoo taking care of animal welfare management. It was very interesting how she elaborated on her experiences being a resident vet in the zoo and the work she did for 3 years. I realised that her work requires fast thinking, and great problem-solving minds, and great mentality and handling heavy animals that are big in size. It made me realized that working with wildlife is not as easy as it seems in Animal Planet XD
The other invited speaker is Professor Madya Dr. Goh Yong Meng, a nutritional physiologist. He explained about how we should approach our studies.
Dr. Wan Fitri and Professor Dato' Dr. Mohammad Shariff were the invited speakers on the third day.
Personally, I think that Dr. Kavitha is my favourite speaker, because she is so determined in her work, she can even sacrifice her sleep and time for the wildlife animals and it is very inspiring for me. As what Dr. Kavitha said, it is no use if we do not take actions and book-keeping is very essential for informations on how to handle and treat the Malaysian species animals. My horizon on veterinary work surely did widened.
What type of vet do I wanna be?
The answer is still wildlife.
That's all thank you!
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